Chapter Summaries

Yin Yunze assessed the limits of damaging the City God and recovered the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flags and other items from the battlefield. After returning to her temple and seeing the shrine maidens training, she discovered that Provincial Graduate Guo had survived as a ghost.

• Yin Yunze considered how destroying a temple could hurt a deity but concluded that defeating the City God required undermining both his legitimacy and his believers' faith.
• Yin Yunze searched the Mystic Lightning battlefield, collected the six Dark Heavenly Lightning Flags, and found the Third Warden's saber and a pouch she could not open.
• Yin Yunze failed to find Provincial Graduate Guo's soul and left the battlefield believing he had died protecting her.
• Yin Yunze returned to her temple, comforted the worried shrine maidens, and began considering martial arts training to improve her close-combat skills.
• Yin Yunze entered the rear hall and found Provincial Graduate Guo alive as a ghost, then bluntly asked him whether he had died.

Yin Yunze learned that Provincial Graduate Guo had survived inside the Soul-Capturing Pearl and heard how the City God had murdered Guo Jing’s wife, ruined his prospects, and continued tormenting her soul. She promised to help Guo Jing take revenge, then entrusted his recovery to Xuan'er and turned back to Zhang Yufei.

• Xuan'er explained that she had placed Guo Jing's unstable soul in the Soul-Capturing Pearl, and Yin Yunze restored some of his strength with Shelter.
• Guo Jing revealed that his wife had died after the City God repeatedly abducted and abused her, and that the City God had also sent a plague ghost to stop him from taking the capital examination.
• Guo Jing told Yin Yunze that he had watched the City God Temple for years, hoping to protect women and find a chance for revenge.
• Guo Jing explained that Peng Shulan had kept him alive with offerings and introduced him to Yin Yunze through her divine statue.
• Yin Yunze promised to help Guo Jing deal with the City God, sent him back to the Soul-Capturing Pearl to recuperate, and entrusted the pearl to Xuan'er.
• Yin Yunze apologized to Zhang Yufei for leaving her waiting.

Yin Yunze mastered Zhang Yufei’s martial arts, reached the Innate realm, and helped Zhang Yufei advance by teaching her the Frost Instruction. After arranging for her to train the other shrine maidens and preparing to reward Sun Qin, he refined the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flags while waiting for Xu Hanxian, but Peng Shulan arrived instead.

• Zhang Yufei taught Yin Yunze the Cloud and Water Instruction, and he quickly reached the Innate realm before mastering her movement, palm, and saber techniques.
• Yin Yunze analyzed the martial arts and improved his command of skills and authority, realizing he could better face the Three Prison Wardens.
• Yin Yunze taught Zhang Yufei the Proud Cold Instruction and granted her frost internal force until she reached the Innate realm.
• Yin Yunze taught Zhang Yufei improved movement, palm, and saber techniques, then told her to train the other shrine maidens and considered granting Sun Qin similar strength.
• Yin Yunze began refining the unowned Dark Heavenly Lightning Flags while waiting for Xu Hanxian, but Peng Shulan arrived alone.

Yin Yunze arranged for Zhang Yufei to greet Peng Shulan with her newly gained Innate strength, then demonstrated how he could rapidly cultivate Sun Qin to the Innate Realm. He asked the envious Peng Shulan whether he wanted the same opportunity.

• Yin Yunze sent Zhang Yufei to welcome Peng Shulan, and she defeated him instantly with her new Innate strength.
• Peng Shulan recognized Zhang Yufei's achievement, congratulated her, and let her lead him to Yin Yunze.
• Yin Yunze guided Sun Qin through the Frost Instruction, and she reached the Innate Realm in one hour.
• Yin Yunze asked Peng Shulan what he thought of his Divine Ability, then asked whether Peng Shulan wanted it.

Yin Yunze secured Peng Shulan’s oath to serve as her blade and protect Xu Hanxian’s family, while promising to help him reach the Innate realm after he studied her improved technique. She then refined the Third Warden’s Storage Bag and discovered the Hungry Ghost Path scripture, learning how its human and ghost cultivation methods fit together.

• Yin Yunze offered to help Peng Shulan enter the Innate realm in exchange for becoming her blade, and he agreed to kill anyone she commanded except his family and friends.
• Peng Shulan volunteered to kill Xu Hanxian, but Yin Yunze ordered him to protect Xu Hanxian and his family instead; he swore an oath to serve Lady Qingnü.
• Peng Shulan delivered Xu Hanxian’s apology letter and gold, and Yin Yunze accepted the gold before sending him to study the Frost Instruction with Zhang Yufei.
• Yin Yunze refined the Third Warden’s Storage Bag, found valuables and two Jade Slips, and read the Six Divisions Infinite Scripture: Hungry Ghost Path.
• Yin Yunze learned the scripture’s cultivation ranks and how the Asura Battle Body and Wisdom King Dharma Form could ultimately combine into the Six-Wheel Wisdom King Form.

Yin Yunze examined the sinister techniques and items left by the third prison warden, destroying what he could not safely keep and saving spirit puppets for Guo Jing. He then dealt with stolen White Fox weapons by ordering their recovery and tighter village controls, and decided the villagers needed moral instruction.

• Yin Yunze studied the second Jade Slip, identified the third prison warden’s vicious methods and possessions, and kept only Soul-Capturing Pearls and spirit puppets for practical use.
• Yin Yunze destroyed the dangerous remaining goods with the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag and Fox Fire, then buried their ashes underground.
• Yin Yunze raised Peng Shulan to the Innate Realm, and Peng Shulan reported that white fox-marked sabers and armor were being sold in the county town.
• Sun Qin confessed that weapons had been swapped from the storeroom and the White Fox Corps, and Yin Yunze ordered her to recover them and punish those who failed to return them.
• Yin Yunze restricted access to the temple grounds and resolved to have the shrine maidens reform the villagers’ conduct.

Yin Yunze uploaded a video to attract believers, then cultivated the Immovable Wisdom King Seal and realized he needed to expand his territory to gather more spiritual energy. Xu Hanxian visited Qingnü Temple and relayed the City God's warning, leaving Yin Yunze facing the consequences of their earlier dispute.

• Yin Yunze filmed and uploaded a promotional video introducing himself as a Nine-Tailed Fox and the God of Frost and Snow, hoping to gain more believers.
• Yin Yunze refined the Pure Scenery Ruyi Saber and chose to cultivate the Immovable Wisdom King Seal, relying on his nine tails for offense and seeking stronger defense.
• Yin Yunze found that the Clear Creek Basin lacked enough Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for his cultivation and concluded that he needed to expand his territory.
• Yin Yunze pulled Xu Hanxian into the Dao Field, healed his exhaustion, and made him snow-fragrant tea while asking why Yue'er had not come.
• Xu Hanxian told Yin Yunze that the City God admitted fault in the earlier matter and would let it end, but warned that he would not be so courteous next time.

Yin Yunze denied responsibility for the City God temple attack, then recruited Xu Hanxian to gather county magistrates by offering them Fox Rice while warning them about the Heavenly Wheel Sect. Back in the present world, she discovered that her followers’ pink Power of Incense Offerings contained lewd thoughts, leaving her furious and embarrassed.

• Yin Yunze told Xu Hanxian to tell the City God that she did not understand his message, then warned him that the Heavenly Wheel Sect had targeted Xu Yue and the drought-stricken magistrates.
• Yin Yunze explained that she had killed the chief culprit but that the sect still had followers in the counties, and she asked Xu Hanxian to invite the other magistrates to meet.
• Yin Yunze offered Fox Rice as an incentive, and Xu Hanxian agreed to gather the magistrates and present the grain as a gift from Lady Qingnü.
• Yin Yunze returned to the present world and found her room filled with pink Power of Incense Offerings around her divine body.
• Yin Yunze sensed the offerings’ lewd contents and angrily cursed the people whose thoughts had produced them.

Yin Yunze fled the flood of lewd incense offerings and traveled to an island nation to steal weapons and supplies from an American military base. After escaping with a vast haul through the Great Gate of Incense, he prepared to recover his divinities and use the stolen arsenal against the City God.

• Yin Yunze sealed the lewd incense offerings, deleted the videos that were attracting them, and returned to the Dao Field in the other world.
• Yin Yunze delivered pig feed, marked a remote location, returned the Land God and God of Frost and Snow Divinities to his divine body, and flew invisibly to an island nation.
• Yin Yunze entered an American military base under cover of darkness and snow, disabled warehouse cameras with the Dark Heavenly Lightning Flag, and moved the contents of both armories through the Great Gate of Incense.
• Yin Yunze also emptied a fuel and supply warehouse before base personnel discovered the thefts, then escaped through the Great Gate of Incense.
• Yin Yunze surveyed the mountain of stolen supplies and planned to retrieve his divinities and store the weapons before confronting the City God.

Yin Yunze summoned the shrine maidens to introduce Guo Jing and refine him into the Pure Fox Robe, a powerful Law Treasure that combined their abilities. Guo Jing emerged stronger and clear-minded, with the robe itself now serving as his true body.

• Yin Yunze pulled the shrine maidens into the Dao Field and introduced Guo Jing, placing his soul in a spirit puppet that took the form of a white-haired girl.
• Yin Yunze persuaded Guo Jing to accept a painful enhancement so he could pursue revenge on the City God.
• Yin Yunze used the Bright Incense Flame, Guo Jing’s soul, tail fur, and supplementary materials to forge the Pure Fox Robe with five Law Techniques.
• Yin Yunze gave Guo Jing the finished robe, and Guo Jing transformed into a powerful, monstrous-looking beauty while retaining his reason.
• Yin Yunze explained that Guo Jing’s true body was now the Pure Fox Robe, while his apparent body was only a projection.

Yin Yunze appointed Guo Jing and Zhao Zixuan as his Subordinate Deities, gave them cultivation techniques, and assigned them divine offices. He then appointed Zhang Yufei as Judgment Envoy, but she still needed to use incense offerings to shed her mortal body before she could truly become a deity.

• Guo Jing accepted the Pure Fox Robe and willingly became Yin Yunze's Subordinate Deity, taking the office of Envoy of Punitive Expedition.
• Yin Yunze gave Guo Jing the Asura Battle Body cultivation method and placed her statue beside Green Hill Yi Yun's to share in the incense offerings.
• Zhao Zixuan accepted the office of Spirit-Attending Envoy, gained two tails, and received the Immovable Wisdom King Seal.
• Yin Yunze gave Zhao Zixuan the Pure Scenery Ruyi Saber to keep as she attended him.
• Yin Yunze appointed Zhang Yufei Judgment Envoy, but explained that she must temper away her mortal body with incense offerings before she could become a true Subordinate Deity.

Yin Yunze appointed Zhang Yufei, Sun Qin, and Qi Rongrong to new roles, equipped them with weapons, techniques, and other rewards, and strengthened the seven shrine maidens. He arranged for the shrine maidens to visit their families, then asked Xuan'er whether she knew any little demons in nearby counties.

• Yin Yunze established a divine tablet for Zhang Yufei, appointed her a Subordinate Deity, and gave her a divine-steel blade and the Great Wisdom Sword cultivation method.
• Yin Yunze appointed Sun Qin as an Incense Distribution Envoy and gave her an armored chariot and the Vajra Rope cultivation method.
• Yin Yunze declared the four envoys' elevated status, then gave the tearful Qi Rongrong an honorary clerk post under Fei'er and the Great Sun Wheel to practice.
• Yin Yunze bestowed sealed icy internal force on the seven little shrine maidens and arranged for them to visit their families with Fox Rice.
• After sending the shrine maidens out of the Dao Field, Yin Yunze asked Xuan'er if she knew any little demons in the surrounding counties.

Hu Lü and Hu Cheng returned to their families with gifts and faced very different welcomes, while Zhang Yufei visited her dissolute, badly injured master, Zhang Liuyun. The chapter ended with Zhang Yufei confronting Zhang Liuyun about her past as a notorious flower-picking thief.

• Hu Lü arrived at her family home with grain, silver, and food, and reunited tearfully with her mother and grandfather.
• Hu Lü’s grandfather celebrated her return and welcomed villagers to a feast, while Hu Lü insisted she was only Lady Qingnü’s servant.
• Hu Cheng ordered the White Fox Corps guards to break down her family’s gate, then had them restrain her sister-in-law and broke several of the woman’s fingers.
• Hu Cheng confronted her brother after her sister-in-law admitted that she had bullied Hu Cheng and pushed for her sale.
• Zhang Yufei left the convoy and hurried to Qingling County to visit her master, Zhang Liuyun, whom she found drinking among wine jars.
• Zhang Yufei argued with Zhang Liuyun about her past and her injuries, calling her the Jade-Stealing Lady and saying she had been a flower-picking thief.

Zhang Yufei fought with Zhang Liuyun, accidentally injured her with her new frost internal force, then healed the scars on her face and began recounting her recent experiences. Meanwhile, the little fox girl and Guo Jing reached a sealed fox den, where the foxes emerged begging the revered god for mercy.

• Zhang Yufei blocked Zhang Liuyun's attacks and revealed her Innate Realm strength and frost internal force, accidentally knocking Zhang Liuyun down and making her spit blood.
• Zhang Yufei used Heal Character Talismans to heal Zhang Liuyun's facial scars, and Zhang Liuyun softened toward her and asked about her journey with her senior brother.
• The little fox girl and Guo Jing traveled to recruit minor demons and evil spirits, while their divine presence kept the local creatures hidden.
• The little fox girl found the entrance to her old fox den sealed beneath fresh soil and sent a cold wind inside to ask what had happened.
• Red foxes emerged from the cave, prostrated themselves before the little fox girl, and begged the revered god to spare them.

Zhao Zixuan reunited with her fox relatives and killed a leopard that had once hunted her, while Yin Yunze received the county magistrates and confronted their disrespect. The officials ended the chapter facing Yin Yunze’s cold warning inside Qingnü Temple.

• Zhao Zixuan recognized Great-grandma Fox, healed her, and told her fox relatives how she became an Orthodox God under Lady Qingnü.
• Great-grandma Fox asked Zhao Zixuan to seek Lady Qingnü’s protection for the mortal foxes, but a leopard interrupted and tried to ingratiate himself with Zhao Zixuan.
• Zhao Zixuan recognized the leopard as the one that had chased her seventy years earlier and killed him with an icicle.
• Zhao Zixuan explained that Lady Qingnü had sent her to find Demon Race members willing to believe in and obey her.
• Lord Li demanded that Sun Qin kneel, and Lord Zhou tried to make her his concubine.
• Yin Yunze ordered Peng Shulan to throw the county magistrates into Qingnü Temple, then warned them that their disrespect could cost them their lives.

Yin Yunze negotiated with seven county magistrates to secure grain for drought relief in exchange for temples and official recognition, then asked about the Heavenly Wheel Sect. The magistrates’ differing reactions left her uncertain who was connected to the sect.

• County Magistrate Li and County Magistrate Zhou challenged Yin Yunze’s authority, while County Magistrate Liu defended the need to prioritize the starving people and criticized both sides.
• Yin Yunze apologized for her discourtesy, and the magistrates sat down to discuss disaster relief.
• Yin Yunze offered unlimited Fox Rice in return for the magistrates publicizing her aid, building temples, and granting her official recognition; Liu and Xu Hanxian supported building temples.
• When Liu questioned whether Yin Yunze had enough grain, she swore by Heaven and her divine office that she would provide it or be destroyed, convincing the magistrates to accept her terms.
• Yin Yunze asked whether the magistrates knew of the Heavenly Wheel Sect, and Liu, Feng, Wang, Shen, and Yang said their searches had found no sect members or mysterious illnesses.

Yin Yunze learned that the magistrates had found no evidence of the Heavenly Wheel Sect’s plot because her intervention had caused the Third Prison Warden to suspend it. She offered Fox Rice in exchange for support and temples, then violently punished Magistrate Li for opposing her demand to expel the sect, leaving the other magistrates frightened.

• Yin Yunze used her incense-nourished copper coin to learn that saving Xu Yue had disrupted the Third Prison Warden’s scheme across the prefecture, and the Warden’s death had halted it.
• Yin Yunze offered the magistrates Fox Rice at a low price in exchange for limiting its resale price, building at least five temples to Qingnü, and driving Heavenly Wheel Sect followers from their jurisdictions.
• Magistrate Li objected to expelling the sect, and Yin Yunze concluded that he was allied with it.
• Yin Yunze ordered Peng Shulan to sever and repeatedly cut Magistrate Li’s hand, healing it between attacks while the other magistrates watched in terror.
• Yin Yunze sent Peng Shulan to continue punishing Magistrate Li outside and told the magistrates that his treatment showed how much she hated the Heavenly Wheel Sect.

Yin Yunze intimidated the county magistrates into accepting his terms, then softened his approach and offered them tea. All eight magistrates ultimately agreed to distribute Fox Rice, build temples, expel Heavenly Wheel Sect followers, and promote Qingnü in exchange for aid and possible snowfall.

• Yin Yunze threatened County Magistrate Liu with torture and replacement by a spirit puppet, while County Magistrate Zhou begged for mercy and pledged to oppose the Heavenly Wheel Sect.
• Yin Yunze apologized to County Magistrate Liu, ordered Sloth to heal County Magistrate Li, and persuaded the magistrates to return to their seats.
• Yin Yunze served snow-boiled tea and proposed selling Fox Rice cheaply, requiring temples and official recognition, expelling Heavenly Wheel Sect followers, and offering snowfall if enough believers gathered.
• County Magistrates Li, Zhou, Xu Hanxian, Wang, Yang, Shen, Feng, and Liu all agreed to Yin Yunze's terms.
• Yin Yunze asked the magistrates to swear an oath to uphold their agreement.

The fox great-grandmother met Yin Yunze at Qingnü Temple and submitted her clan to Lady Qingnü. She asked for a younger form and was transformed into Zhao Rui, a white-haired, red-eyed fox-eared girl.

• The little fox girl brought her great-great-grandmother to Qingnü Temple, where Guo Jing emerged from the Pure Fox Robe and startled the old fox.
• Yin Yunze welcomed the fox great-grandmother and healed her, then accepted her offer to lead her clan in serving him.
• The fox great-grandmother presented a leopard-skin token linked to her clan’s heart Essence Blood, and Yin Yunze examined and accepted it.
• The fox great-grandmother asked Yin Yunze to grant her a name and a younger body, and he named her Zhao Rui and began her transformation.
• Zhao Rui emerged from her old fox body as a young white-haired loli, received a shrine maiden outfit, and insisted she could dress herself.

Yin Yunze welcomed Zhao Rui as a follower and began forging a banner that could summon foxes and other lesser demons as he gathered them under his rule. After Zhao Rui became his first fanatic, he tasked her and Xuan'er with recruiting foxes, promising Zhao Rui a position as a Subordinate Deity if they succeeded.

• Zhao Rui completed her transformation into a young fox spirit, and Yin Yunze invited her kin and other foxes to gather in the Clear Creek Basin.
• Yin Yunze forged a half-finished banner from fox fur and blood, giving it the power to sense and summon the foxes whose essence it contained.
• Zhang Liuyun visited Qingnü Temple, became a devout believer, and produced pink Power of Incense Offerings before leaving.
• Yin Yunze explained the banner's purpose to Xuan'er and Zhao Rui and said he planned to expand it into a Demon-Summoning Banner for lesser demons.
• Zhao Rui became a fanatic after hearing Yin Yunze's ambitions, and he asked her to help Xuan'er recruit foxes in exchange for the promise of becoming a Subordinate Deity.